On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 04:54:25PM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote:
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> I've been reminded that as Acting Secretary I should officially announce the
> results of the recent vote. My apologies for the delay!
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> Details of the outcome and how various options were voted are available at
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> http://www.debian.org/vote/2008/vote_003
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> The winning option was number 5, "Assume blobs comply with GPL unless proven
> otherwise", the full text of which is appended below.
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> Since the election concluded, several developers have asked for some statement
> from the DPL and/or Secretary as to what this result really means. Steve and
> I have discussed it, and we think it's pretty clear. This result means that
> the Debian Lenny release can proceed as the release team has intended, with
> the kernel packages currently in the archive.
Hi Bdale,
What the release team intended (at least before the vote), as represented by
lenny-ignore tags is to skip more DFSG violations than just kernel packages,
see:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211765http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=368559http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=424957http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=391935http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=459705http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=382175http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=509287
However, your announcement seems to assume these only concerned kernel
packages. This leaves the message open to interpretation, it could mean
any of the following:
- You assume the release team no longer intends to ignore DFSG violations
for these packages.
- The RT gets an exception for kernel packages, as they intended, but not
for the rest of Debian.
- The developers are implicitly endorsing an exception for the rest of
Debian packages.
Please, could you send a new message clarifiing the situation, and your
judgement as Secretary?
Thanks!
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Robert Millan
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